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Meet the Cast of Elektra

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We are delighted to welcome the cast of Elektra. Here they are! Samer Ajluni is excited to be working with Penny Seats Theatre for the first time.  His most recent stage work includes “Emma”, a staged reading at the Matrix Theatre, Matt Friedman in “Talley’s Folly” with Puzzle Piece Theatre, and Louie in “Lost in Yonkers” at the Dio Theatre. He also appears in a short film called “Open House” that was shot in Ann Arbor, currently in development. He received his formal training in acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a B.S. in Arts Management. Emily Caffery is originally from Leyden, Massachusetts, but has been privileged to call Ann Arbor home for the past four years. Local productions include The Glass Menagerie at the Performance Network and Steel Magnolias with Two Muses Theatre. She is newly returned from the East Coast where she was traveling with the nomadic street theater troupe The Vagari Project and training at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Theater Institute. She could …

Elektra Rehearsals are underway

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  We have officially begun rehearsals for our fourth summer residency at the West Park Band Shell, and this year, we are excited to present Sophocles’ Elektra, translated by former University of Michigan professor Anne Carson and directed by our co-founder Russ Schwartz.  Tickets are available HERE!  We are so excited. We encourage our patrons to make an evening of coming to the show, which will perform Thursday,  Friday, and Saturday evenings in July, starting July 10th. Tickets are just $10, and grounds will open at 5:30pm each night with performances at 7:00pm. Picnic dinner packages will be available at the park. Here’s our stark, arresting poster.  Doesn’t that make you curious? Anyway, Russ describes how we found Carson’s Elektra to be a thrilling prospect from its first experimental reading. “We didn’t want that session to end – there was too much to discuss. The story shows you a character who has been pushed to her limits by betrayal, hatred, and evil, fighting back with wit, subterfuge, open rebellion, and above all, total dedication to righting the wrong at the center of her life. It’s easy to …